Combination shade and curtain fixture for windows.



J. A. JOHNSON.

COMBINATION SHADE AND CURTAIN FIXTURE FOB WINDOWS.

Patented Mar. 12, 1912.

APPLICATION FILED O0T.19, 1910.

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JOHN A. JOHNSON, OF OKLAHOMA, OKLAHOMA.

COMBINATION SHADE AND CURTAIN FIXTURE FOR WINDOWS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. October 19, 1910.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN A. JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States, and residing at Oklahoma city, county of Oklahoma, and State of Oklahoma, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination Shade and Curtain Fixtures for Vindows, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in combination shade and curtain fixtures for windows.

Primarily, the invention has for its object the provision of a fixture of the general nature referred to wherein is embodied means to adapt the fixture to be applied to and secured upon a window without the employment of nails, screws Or other fastenings of a permanent character.

Furthermore, the invention aims to provide a fixture for the purpose stated the construction of which is such as to adapt it for application to different sizes of windows, the fixture being adjustable, and thereby enabling it to support shades of standard size regardless of the size of the window. The necessity, therefore, of usingspecial sizes of shades is avoided.

Another object of this invention is to provide a fixture of the class referred to which will be especially adapted to withstand the strains put upon it, and yet be comparatively light in weight.

Having these general objects in view, and others which will appear as the nature of the improvements is better understood, the invention consists substantially in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawingsFigure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a window with a combination shade and curtain fixture embodying the present. invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is an end elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a top plan view, partially in section, of the device.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the drawings.

Referring in detail to the drawings, the numeral 1 designates a clamping member having terminal feet 2 designed to embrace the facing strip of a window. One of the feet 2 is provided with lugs 3 which are Patented Mar. 12, 1912.

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designed to engage the window frame, and thus prevent movement of the clamping member 1 upon the frame. To the further accomplishment of this end, the other foot of said member has a binding screw 4: threadably engaged therewith, the inner end of said screw having a washer 5 loosely mounted thereon in order to take against the window frame but permit the screw 4 to readily rotate. Obviously, with the washer 5 properly engaged with the window frame pressure is exerted upon the lugs 3, and the clamping member 1 may be held at any point, through the instrumentalities referred to, as may be desired. This provides for positioning the clamping member 1 at different heights on the window frame.

Associated with the clamping member 1 is a supporting bracket 6. This bracket may be of any suitable material, but preferably metal as shown in the drawings, and the upper end of said bracket has a recess 7 designed to receive the pole for supporting the curtains. To this end, the recess 7 is preferably of circular formation, but any configuration desired may be imparted thereto. The bracket 6 is also provided with an opening 8 designed to receive the spindle lug upon one end of a shade roller. In actual use, the opening 8 referred to will be circular in one of the brackets, while in the other bracket this opening will be square, thereby accommodating the ordinary spring shade roller in the manner characteristic of the supporting brackets usually employed with these shade rollers.

That the bracket 6 may be supported upon the clamping member 1 said bracket is provided at its lower end with an outwardly extending foot 9, which foot projects at right angles to the body portion of the bracket, and said foot 9 is spaced sufficiently from the rear end of the bracket 6 to provide a slot 10, which slot is designed to receive the clamping member 1. Therefore, the foot 9, when the bracket is associated with the clamping member, lies between the clamping member and the window frame. The foot 9 carries a spring clip 11, which clip is positioned at the front face of said foot, and is suitably secured thereto, either by riveting, soldering or welding; the last process being preferred where a more integral connection is desired. The clip 11 is spaced sufficiently from the foot 9 to admit the clamping member 1 therebetween, and by reason of the resilient character of said clip the same frictionally engages the clamping member 1, thereby holding the bracket upon said member, but permitting its adjustment, when pressure is applied thereto, to different points along said clamping member.

In the use of the herein described combination fixture, the clamping member 1 is applied to one side of the window frame, as illustrated in Fig. 1, a pair of these clamping members, of course, being employed. Through the medium of the screw 4 the clamping member is held in position at the desired point, and when this has been accomplished, the supporting bracket 6 is applied to the clamping member. In doing this the foot 9 is introduced between the clamping member and the window frame, and the spring clip 11 frictionally engages the clamping member 1. The resistance offered by this engagement holds the supporting bracket at the point to which it has been applied, the bracket, however, being adjustable along the clamping member, and by reason of this adjustment shades of standard size may be applied to the window regardless of the size of the latter.

The recess 7 of the bracket 6 receives the curtain pole, and it is to be observed that said recess is in a different vertical plane from that occupied by the opening 8, thus permitting curtains to be suspended from the pole without interfering with the proper Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

operating of the shade supportedin the openings 8 of the supporting brackets.

By employing the clamping member 1 the use of nails, screws or other fasteningsof a permanent character is entirely avoided, and the combination fixture may be readily removed from the window to which it is applied by simply loosening the screw 4 and freeing the lugs 3 from their engagement with the window frame.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is:

In a device of the class described a supporting bracket made of fiat material and arranged to receive a curtain pole and shade spindle, a flat foot member disposed on the back portion of said bracket and at right angles thereto, said foot being spaced from said bracket at its lower portion so as to permit said bracket and member to engage with the front and back surfaces of a holder secured to the frame of a window, and a flat spring rigidly secured at its upper portion to said member and enlarged so as to permit the lower portion of the same to frictionally engage with the outer surface of the holder and additionally clamp said foot member thereto, said spring being disposed in the central portion of said member and away from the end thereof and said bracket.

JOHN A. JOHNSON.

Witnesses H. L. DANNER, J. B. BAXTER.

Washington, D. G. 

